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Risky Business – Is China Wavering in Africa?
Last month, officials from the Chinese Development Bank arrived in Ghana to re-negotiate a $3 billion oil-backed infrastructure deal.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation
With a majority of its population living in villages, rural poverty is a major problem in India. The disparity between the urban and rural incomes is also on the rise. This leads to migration to urban areas resulting in urban blight as well. Therefore addressing the problem of rural poverty assumes urgency. On my last trip to India, I witnessed an innovation experiment, National Agro Foundation (NAF), that addresses this wicked problem.
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- South Asia
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10,000 toilets to be built annually with microfinance in rural India
An NGO, Gramalaya, and a microfinance firm called Guardian have been implementing the sanitation project by providing financial loans to villagers to build toilets. They have also secured the support of government authorities to initiate the project.
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- Health Care
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A Merry-Go-Round That Turns The Power Of Play Into Electricity in rural Ghana
Empower Playgrounds is providing electricity-generating playground equipment to impoverished schools in rural Ghana.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In India, what drives private banks’ interest in rural areas?
The rapid increase of rural incomes and consumption with a shift in expenditure patterns has altered business perceptions
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Millennium Development goals in rural Africa get $100 million boost
In 2011, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Earth Institute (Columbia University) formed a partnership to work with African nations to support their efforts to end extreme poverty. On Tuesday, the IsDB and the Earth Institute and its partner, Millennium Promise, announced that the IsDB and its poverty reduction arm, the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), have now extended more than $100 million in financing to help eight African nations combat extreme poverty, improve public health and achieve more sustainable development.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fighting Poverty, and Critics
Nina Munk’s new book, “The Idealist,” is about the well-known economist Jeffrey Sachs and his “quest to end poverty,” as the subtitle puts it. I know: That subtitle sounds like classic book-industry hyperbole, but, in this case, it’s not. That really is what Sachs has been trying to do. The question of whether or not he is succeeding is where things get tricky.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact Investment Exchange Asia invests in Indian Social Enterprise Spring Health
Singapore based Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) has announced today that its Impact Partners platform has successfully facilitated an investment from two private investors, alongside lead investors from the Artha initiative and the Stone Family Foundation, into Spring Health Water (India) Pte. Ltd., a for-profit Social Enterprise that provides safe and affordable drinking water to rural customers in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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